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2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$39,800 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$26,842 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Design & Applied Arts Undergraduate Certificate School for You

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, design and applied arts was ranked #36 in the country. In fact 36,301 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Design & Applied Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Check out the design undergraduate certificate programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Design & Applied Arts Undergraduate Certificate School

Our 2023 rankings named Massachusetts College of Art and Design the best value school in the New England Region for design and applied arts students working on their undergraduate certificate. Massachusetts College of Art and Design is a small public school located in the city of Boston.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design undergraduate students pay an average of $39,800 in tuition and fees each year. While working on their Undergraduate Certificate, design majors at Massachusetts College of Art and Design accumulate an average of around $24,235 in student debt.

Full Design & Applied Arts at Massachusetts College of Art and Design Report

Best Design & Applied Arts Colleges by State

Explore the best design and applied arts schools for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 887
Connecticut 241
New Hampshire 456
Maine 24
Rhode Island 159
Vermont 99

Design & Applied Arts is one of 10 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Design

Related Major Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts 37,413
Music 25,910
Drama & Theater Arts 17,341
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 16,778
General Visual & Performing Arts 6,355

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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